I was talking with a friend and coworker yesterday about the hogs on my property. I'm pretty cheap and I don't want to pen up my feeders (I don't know how a bullet will get through the pen from a ground blind when there's a deer in it anyway). Anyway, he came up with a simple, but ingenius, plan that just might work. He simply said that if I don't want hogs at my deer hunting feeders, just set up a "hog area" somewhere else on the ranch. You know, some fermented corn, jello, the whole nine yards in an area that I won't be deer hunting. That way the hogs prefer to go there and not to my deer spots. It's such a simple concept that I think it just might work. Has anyone tried this?
Yeah, we tried it, but as soon as they finished it all they would head back over and do their best to destroy our feeders.. Trapping and killing as many as you can is the only way to thin them out. We are their only predator.
They get used to going feeder to feeder, sour corn in another area would just delay them momentarily. Shoot em, shoot em some more, and keep shooting them. Shoot them until the rut is about to start.
I corn the road good where I can see it from the stand. Most deer prefer to not have to go to the feeder (at least on our lease in Port Lavaca) and will key on the corned road. The hogs will still go to the feeder and have the next feeder on their mind, so they normally don't bother with the road corn. I also leave a gap between the hand spread corn and the feeder...to keep the hogs from following the corn trail.
I normally shoot the first hog to show up, which makes the come in later, which gives the deer a hour or two before the hogs show..if they do before dusk.
Set your feeder to go off early in the morning then again about 45 min later, thats what I did. The hogs came in at first light cleaned up the corn then left the feeder went off the second time and the corn was there for the deer.
If they come out when the suns out pop a few, they will wait till its dark to come out then.
The hogs go from feeder to feeder as soon as the sun goes down or just before sun-up. They will eat everything in sight. They eat like pigs. The only way to keep them out is hog panels.
They might go to the "hog feeder" first but will get to all the rest when they have eaten all the groceries up at the first one.
You can build a 48'X48' pen with 34" hog panels, t-posts, everything for around $200. Depending on how easy the posts drive, takes about 1-1 1/2 hours.
Won't work. They will probably appreciate you giving them something sweet or sour though. Like everyone else says, they will clean that up and head straight for your other feeders.
Don't shoot the deer in the feeder. Shoot them as they make their way to or from the feeder if you can. Of course that can be difficult on some of the hill country places I've hunted -too much cedar - But most of the places I get to hunt on these days won't let you shoot deer in feeder pens.
You said you were cheap, well in the long run if the "Hog Area" idea did work it would end up costing you more than the feeder pen. The pen is a one time cost, but keeping enough corn and such in the Hog Area to keep the hogs there would dig deep in your pockets really quick.
: The hogs go from feeder to feeder as soon as the sun goes down or just before sun-up. They will eat everything in sight. They eat like pigs..............................................I guess that's why they are called PIGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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